Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponteis a Greek American architect. He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
car electronics cost
The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
organization ideas perspective
The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.
trying sometimes clicks
I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website and you try to click on something and sometimes it will even say it's free, but you have to fill out this form.
doors fire answers
If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?
differences yesterday atoms
The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.
kids breathing air
Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
academic-freedom mit academic
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
vision peripheral-vision
You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
issues world laptops
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
worry want today
I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.
ships atoms bits
It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
phones people wire
It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
order people machines
Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
drinking sea design
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.